[Liverpool] ***UNCHECKED*** Email in a box

[Alex J Lennon]

On 11/07/17 15:14, jn1057 via Liverpool wrote:
> Just as I thought, the livlug group are quick to respond and provide 
> very useful advice! Many thanks.
>
> Again though Neil, I think you sent two emails relating to my query 
> but one of them was missing the body of the email!  We think that is 
> due to my email client on my Samsung phone.
>
> Email in a box seems to be a very basic generic system intended to be 
> installed onto a server Farm rented server. Doing that seems reduce 
> the problems of being blacklisted due to being on a home ip address. 
>  Email in a box when installed, hijacks the entire pc and it seems 
> locks it down so it is the only service on that pc.
>
> Email in a box own docs suggests that there are other more 
> sophisticated projects that could be tried, iRedMail being one of them.
>
> As someone entirely new to this idea of "re decentralisation" of 
> Internet services I'm intrigued, bewildered yet keen to learn how to 
> implement my own email hosting system
>
>

Speaking as somebody who has run his own email, web. and other servers 
for many, many years, as I'm sure is true of many from LivLig and the 
DoES community, I can't think of a more fun way to get started than 
using a co-located Raspberry Pi for your email server:

e.g. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-colocation

Cheers,

Alex
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